Create, edit and view stories (Education accounts can also
create student accounts that do not require email addresses)
Email Use:
Required for regular log-in account
Paid Option:
Order additional soft cover or hard cover copies of the books
Comparison:
Final product gets printed and bound on professional looking
glossy paper and shipped for free, tools easy to use, website
can be slow to access, students must return parent order form
to get free copy of book
Description:
User can write their own book, featuring a combination of text
and images in 8, 16 or 32 page configurations of books. When
the book is complete, students fill out an order form and are
given one free paperback copy of their book for returning the
form. Students have the option to order additional paperback
and hardcover books.
Uses:
User can develop a personal autobiography of an event, create a
handbook or how-to book for a certain subject or content area,
and write a story to give as a gift.
Create a storify story, view published storify stories
Logged-in User:
Save and publish storify stories
Email Use:
Required for log-in account creation
Paid Option:
N/A
Comparison:
Very easy to quickly populate a storify story, strong social
network connections, limited design options, only linear stories
available
Description:
By uploading bookmarks from the web or searching through
social networks integrated in storify, users can quickly drag
and sequence different articles, videos, and tweets to create
a story.
Uses:
User can demonstrate the general reaction to a major news event,
compare and contrast different view points, sequence the
growth of a story or event.
Export to other programs, print outline, richer chart options
Comparison:
Very strong outline features, easy to create and distinguish
characters, built specifically for stories, no easy way to export
in free version, can be overwhelming for beginners
Description:
By adding characters, settings and events into strands and
combining strands into scenes and chapters, a user can
develop a very detailed story outline before writing a draft.
Uses:
User can outline a complex in-class reading, detail a student
autobiography, develop a class story featuring all the students
Student Publishing
create student accounts that do not require email addresses)
glossy paper and shipped for free, tools easy to use, website
can be slow to access, students must return parent order form
to get free copy of book
and images in 8, 16 or 32 page configurations of books. When
the book is complete, students fill out an order form and are
given one free paperback copy of their book for returning the
form. Students have the option to order additional paperback
and hardcover books.
handbook or how-to book for a certain subject or content area,
and write a story to give as a gift.
Storify
network connections, limited design options, only linear stories
available
social networks integrated in storify, users can quickly drag
and sequence different articles, videos, and tweets to create
a story.
compare and contrast different view points, sequence the
growth of a story or event.
Storybook
characters, built specifically for stories, no easy way to export
in free version, can be overwhelming for beginners
combining strands into scenes and chapters, a user can
develop a very detailed story outline before writing a draft.
autobiography, develop a class story featuring all the students